"What... what is going on? Why are my stories drawn as a manga? Or am I just a manga character?"
Two hours later, after browsing through the manga, Erina Nakiri couldn't help but slam the last volume on the coffee table and yell at Emiya.
After all, this manga had basically exposed all her secrets, and she was quite embarrassed. To be honest, it was already very difficult for her to finish reading the manga.
Especially when she realized that her private life was exposed for the whole world to see, Erina Nakiri even had the thought of wanting to die.
Natsume Takashi also put down Natsume's Book of Friends and looked at Emiya.
To be honest, he also wanted to know what was going on.
Emiya put down his phone and said calmly, "To be honest, I'm not entirely sure either."
"Huh?" Erina Nakiri's face fell apart.
Emiya said, "Then let me ask you a different question. Do you think you're a manga character?"
"I... I..."
Erina Nakiri was at a loss for words. If this were two hours ago, she would have scoffed at the idea.
Huh? I, the magnificent Erina Nakiri, the possessor of the God's Tongue and one of the Totsuki Elite Ten, am a manga character? You have to have a limit to your jokes. Do you really think I won't get angry?
But now... she looked down at the manga on the coffee table, her eyes a little lost.
Emiya continued, "Then let me ask you another question. Do you think a manga character would leave the manga, enter the real world, and read a manga?"
"That..."
"It's impossible, right?" Emiya said, expressing what was on Erina Nakiri's mind.
Erina Nakiri wanted to nod. She also thought it was impossible. How could a manga character appear in reality?
But if it was really impossible, then what was she?
Erina Nakiri became even more lost. She looked up at Emiya with a hopeful look, hoping that Emiya would give her an answer.
Emiya said, "To be honest, I don't really know if you're a manga character or not, but I can assure you that my superpower is transmigration and that I can go to all sorts of worlds. They're all genuine worlds."
Erina Nakiri's face instantly looked much better, but when she saw the Food Wars! manga, she was still a little unsettled. "Then how do you explain this?"
"It's simple. Don't think of it as a manga. Just think of it as a book of prophecies that just happens to be in the form of a manga." Emiya said, trying to comfort Erina Nakiri from a different perspective.
After he said that, Erina Nakiri felt that she could accept it, and even Hisako Arato felt a sense of relief. To be honest, she also felt a sense of despair just now.
"Um..." Natsume Takashi raised his hand and said, "Can I say something?"
Emiya made a gesture for him to go ahead.
Erina Nakiri's eyes turned to Natsume Takashi.
Natsume Takashi met everyone's gaze and said in a low voice, "I was a little shocked when I was looking through this manga just now, and I thought that I was just a manga character. But I quickly realized that this manga only depicts a part of my life."
"I grew up moving around with my relatives, and I've been through a lot of hardships. Those painful memories are not fake or an illusion. These feelings, these memories, have all come together to form who I am today. I don't think I'm a manga character."
"Because these feelings are not things that were drawn. These memories are deeply ingrained in my mind, and they will never fade no matter how much time passes."
"Descartes once said, 'I think, therefore I am.'"
"Now I finally understand the true meaning of that sentence. I am here. I am thinking. I am feeling. I can sit here with all of you, talking about manga and about life. These are all things that a manga can't possibly describe."
"So, I believe that I am real. I am the real Takashi Natsume, not just a manga character."
"Therefore, I think what Emiya-san said is very good. This is just a book of prophecies, and what it shows us is only a part of our future. But the future is not set in stone."
"Now that we know the future, we can easily change it."
"This... is what I think."
When Emiya heard this, he couldn't help but clap his hands. That was so good! As expected of Natsume. He probably saw the uncertainty in Erina Nakiri and said those things. He was unbelievably gentle.
Emiya looked at Erina Nakiri and saw that she and Hisako Arato, who were both a little anxious, had completely relaxed after hearing what he said.
Emiya asked, "Are you still feeling uneasy now?"
"Mm," Erina Nakiri nodded, blushing a little.
"If that's the case, then I have a question I'd like to ask you."
"Go ahead," Erina Nakiri said with a tsundere expression. "But I can't promise that I'll answer you."
But she had already decided that as long as it wasn't too personal, she would answer him.
Emiya smiled slightly. "Miss Erina Nakiri, would you be willing to be my private chef?"
"Huh?"
"What?"
"Chef?!?" Erina Nakiri's reaction was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She almost jumped up.
"Me? Why would I become your chef? And a private chef at that? I refuse. I absolutely refuse."
"You won't even consider it?" Emiya asked.
"Consider it? Why would I consider it? I, the magnificent God's Tongue, Erina Nakiri, would become your private chef? That's impossible."
Erina Nakiri shook her head.
Hisako Arato saw this and couldn't help but tug on Erina Nakiri's clothes.
My Lady, you're in his house right now. Aren't you being a little too arrogant?
Erina Nakiri was pulled by Hisako Arato and immediately reacted. She looked at Emiya warily.
"If I refuse, you're not going to use some underhanded means to force me, are you?"
Emiya couldn't help but laugh. He shook his head and said, "What are you thinking? I'm not that kind of person. Besides, if you refuse, you're the one who loses, not me."
Erina Nakiri looked at him with a look of disbelief.
If I refuse to be your private chef, I'm the one who loses? How is that possible?
Nyanko-sensei stuck out his tongue and licked his paws. He said with a playful smile, "Little girl named Erina Nakiri, that guy isn't lying. You probably don't understand what the ability to transmigrate means yet."
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